Team mates
Best mate at the club? It would be Shaun Pearson and Craig Disley. We have been playing together for the last six seasons. We’ve been to the Cheltenham Festival together and Shaun has his stag do this summer. Hopefully, that will be good. Last to pay for dinner? I would have to say Shaun Pearson again. He is, without doubt, the tightest person in the world. If he could save one penny by going to a different shop then he would do it! Worst dressed? I think my team-mates would nominate me for this one as I wear shorts and flip-flops most of the year. The goalkeeping coach, Andy Warrington, is the worst, though. When he makes an effort – or what he deems to be an effort – he looks like your grandad going to a funeral. But I would definitely get some stick from the boys for this one. Dressing room DJ? Dom Vose does it. He is not bad considering we have had some terrible ones. He puts on a mix for everyone and no-one complains, which is the best seal of approval. I wouldn’t go near it because I don’t think the lads want to listen to James Blunt anyway. Late for training? Josh Gowling. If you have to be in at 10.15, he will rock up at 10:14.59 and, even if he is late, he won’t admit it. He always claims he is up early so I have no idea why he is late. Teacher’s pet? Shaun Pearson again. We have quite a lot of meetings where the gaffer asks questions when we are doing analysis and Shaun will answer for the centre-forwards, the defenders, everyone. He is very eager to please, for sure. He bails a few of the other lads out by answering for them! First on dance floor? We have quite a few actually and we’ve a couple of really good singers. Sam Jones has the best voice I have ever heard live. We have to sing a song when we first sign and when we have our first overnight stay and he was impressive. He usually sings some Bob Marley songs and he plays the guitar. Most likely to disgrace himself at the Christmas party? Max Wright is one of the young lads in the squad. He is only 18 and I think he drank for the first time at our party this year. He got thrown out of the nightclub. He plays right wing and I have never seen anyone getting as touch-tight to females as him. He wasn’t giving them a yard of space. He was ‘man-marking’ and embarrassed himself! Worst tattoo? When we got promoted, our captain Craig Disley said he wanted to get three fish, which is a nice idea because it is on our badge. He got it done and, because everyone respects him, no-one said anything but the fish are red for some reason – very questionable. I have thought about getting the promotion date tattooed, but I haven’t got around to it yet. Who will be the best manager? I think there are a couple in the squad. Shaun Pearson because he is very switched on. He watches the games back even on his day off. He would call a lot of meetings because he likes talking and Andrew Boyce would be another because he also loves talking.